/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15062070
That's how it's gonna be

What would be necessary to have a McKendree cylinder maintain itself autonomously so primative inhabitants would be unaware it's a megastructure?

I'm not talking like a some techno-priest shit where humans maintain the system as a religious thing.

How large does one have to be in diameter to prevent noticing the horizon? 500km?

>>11711025

The negative consequences of industrial society disappear in the context of humans living off of Earth, technology will only empower the Newtypes.

so i was wondering
in what possible ways could we usefuly use the power to control gravity
like, once being able to make artificial gravity, we would be able to build space stations as we like, just like interstellar, but what else

It would be far more energy and space efficient to make O'Neil cylinders or other orbital habitats and live in them, then it would be to terraform a planet and live in the thin shell of air and water that that provides.

Possibly if we ever reach a point where we have more energy and planets than we know what to do with we might start terraforming some of them for those who want to go back to living in a gravity well.